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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] io-wq: fix unintentional integer overflow on left shift
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 07:56:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <02517010-9244-771f-d0ce-558bbebe6a63@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc23061e-31ec-8a66-2b62-771121d182de@kernel.dk>

On 10/25/19 6:54 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 10/25/19 6:43 AM, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>>
>> Shifting the integer value 1U is evaluated with type unsigned int
>> using 32-bit arithmetic and then used in an expression that expects
>> a 64-bit value, so there is potentially an integer overflow. Fix this
>> by using the BIT_ULL macro to perform the shift and avoid the overflow.
> 
> Good catch, that should indeed have been 1ULL. I'll fold in your
> fix, thanks!

BTW, this missed the same issue on the clear side of it, in
io_worker_handle_work(). I've fixed that one up the same way.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-25 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-25 12:43 [PATCH][next] io-wq: fix unintentional integer overflow on left shift Colin King
2019-10-25 12:54 ` Jens Axboe
2019-10-25 13:56   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2019-10-25 13:59     ` Colin Ian King
2019-10-25 13:59       ` Jens Axboe

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